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To those of you interested in this story, the progress of which has been an ongoing saga in my internet journal over the last 6 years - I have just finished correcting the First Page Proofs of the biography of my great-uncle the glamorous concert pianist Edward Cahill. It will be published in MelbourneAustralia by Australian Scholarly Publishing in their Arcadia imprint, I hope in September or October 2016. If you wish to hear the playing of Edward Cahill in Liszt and Chopin or the singing of his musical partner George Brooke (up to his tragic death in 1930) click on: www.michael-moran.net/paderewski

It is always a beautiful thing to watch
and listen to a musical talent flowering into maturity. Such is the case with
the extraordinarily gifted Ukrainian/Russian pianist Dinara Klinton. She was
born in Karchiv close to the Ukrainian/Russian frontier not far from a region
of murderous war and cruel ideological conflict. Her mother was forced to flee. The enigmatic nature of her nationality (a child of the
borderlands) and her name (so redolent of a powerful democracy) hints at a
passionate existential intensity, a romantic quest for certainty and stability
that powerfully expresses itself in her playing and her searching
interpretations of the Romantic piano literature. I first heard her command a remarkable
range of piano music at the extraordinarily demanding but rather unknown IX
International Paderewski Piano Competition held in the city of Bydgoszcz in
Poland in November 2013 - Scarlatti, Liszt, Paderewski, Chopin, Brahms,
Schumann, Prokofiev, Bach and Tchaikovsky. http://www.mich…

Australian author and classical musician.
He seriously studied the piano and harpsichord in London for many years.
His piano teacher was Eileen Ralf, a former professor at the Royal Academy of Music and the inspiring teacher of the great Australian pianist Geoffrey Tozer.
His harpsichord teacher was Maria Boxall, editor of the keyboard works of the English Baroque composer and organist John Blow as well as a renowned Harpsichord Method.
He yearns for the South Pacific islands but through a number of unlikely events and coincidences beached up on the cold shores of the Baltic.